Moonsong Glacier aullasik (⦦

"ask sedna, yes, but decide what it is you wish for children. will you be the only mother here? will you allow other women to bring new life to their own hearths? even if a woman does not wish for a husband, babies will still be born and a home that embraces them will grow swiftly."

the incentive and encouragement of healthy children in a safe land would bring women, would bring mated couples, kukutux felt. and perhaps not so secretly now, she had the hope that ariadne would find but one good man to make her mate.

her mother, too, would gather names. out of them all, it was kannoyak of whom she was most fond.